[
US
/ˈməðɝ/
]
NOUN
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a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
the mother of three children - a term of address for an elderly woman
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a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation
necessity is the mother of invention - a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar
- a term of address for a mother superior
VERB
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make (offspring) by reproduction
Abraham begot Isaac
John fathered four daughters -
care for like a mother
She fusses over her husband
How To Use mother In A Sentence
- There are a few plotlines and characters - Sophie's mother in particular - that are somewhat redundant and unnecessary.
- Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really. Gravity's Rainbow
- Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers room the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a washstand, a bureau, a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic. Chapter 1
- All the while their mother snorted, shuffled about a bit and then went back to sleep. The Sun
- His mother and father thought Jim was a bit of an oddball too.
- Her mother has written to him explaining the situation but has not heard back.
- The welfare state was not set up to support vast families or single mothers in inter-generational welfare dependency. We deserve a fair society, but it won't be created by a vendetta against the poor
- The film also stars Jared Leto as Alexander's special boyhood chum, Rosario Dawson as his sex-starved wife, Angelina Jolie as his nagging mother and Val Kilmer as his abusive father.
- Horatia was still in mourning for her mother, and wore a black skirt, but Lucilla's was of rich deep gentianella-coloured silk, and the buttons of her white vest were of beautiful coral. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
- Mewme was an old cat not like the playful little kitten that Alison had first encountered after her mother entered her life.